DE-TECH YOUR BEDROOM

WHY CHARGING YOUR PHONE NEXT TO WHERE YOU SLEEP COULD BE HARMING YOUR SPERM

EXPERT VIEW

“If you are trying for a baby and it doesn’t happen within a year you might want to think of whether it could be your mobile phone habit that is to blame,” says Professor Martha Dirnfeld, of the Technion University in Haifa which recently investigated whether mobile phone use can affect sperm quality. In the study, Israeli scientists monitored 106 men attending a fertility clinic for a year and results indicated that those who chatted on the phone for more than an hour daily were twice as likely to have low sperm quality as those who spoke for less than an hour.